Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-12

from Highmore, were burned by prairie
fire last week. The fire originated from
q pan of live Goals thrown ont by o
DeiPhbor.
The new city government OF Fargo
was elected by the votes OF the two ex-
tremes-ths saloon interest and the
nhurch Roers. Whst pledges we're made
to seeur the support Of these antipodes
ia not known.
There have been no developments as
Jet in the Hicks Trask hardware COM
pany's failure at Aberdeen. It is stated
on good authority that the firm will re-
sumo business ia a few days and pay all
indebtedness in full.
O. W. Darling has purchased, pre-
sumably for William 8. King. the site of
the sherman house, IN Fargo. burned
two years ago. Rumor has it that o
hotel and opera house or stores will be
built at once thereon.
Mayor Scott, of Fargo. vetoed an ap.
preparation for the purchase OF horses to
draw the fire quenchiDg machinery.
The old council, not being able to pass
the measure over the veto, left it for the
new council to act upon.
Canton is undergoing a kerosene oil
war just now. The price at FIST was
nine cents per gallon, but Saturday the
the merchants we're giving it away in
6ye-gallon lots. Two prominent oil
companies are doing the fighting.
Friday morning James Lees barn at
Jim Lake. twenty miles from jamestown,
caught fire from an unknown source OIL d
burned to the ground, with a large
amount OF grain, machinery, two horses
etc. Loss about 81. $50; insurance, &c..
500.
Shotwell & Smith, coal dealers Of
Sioux Falls, have attached $l.05O in the
hands OF Il. q. Parmley s. Bro, belong.
ing to Andrew Langdon 8 TO-, OF OH.
cage. on q coal bill. The cause Of the
attachment was the non-fulfllment by
the Chicago firm OF q contracs with
Shotwell 8 Smith for coal last fall.
Arrangements have been completed
for building tanksge In Fargo for the
Standard oil company. The board Of
trade donates the land and in sixty days
tankage will be completed capable Of
holding from four to five Thousand
barrels OF oil. Cooper shops are to bs
built in connection with this system o
tankage.
At jamestown last Friday q vein Of
water was struck in an artesian we'll at 6
depth OF 1,460 feet. There lie great re
joicing over the result. The water ii
pure, clear and soft, and the tempera.
ture is 65 deg. The we'll was tested ant
the result fulfilled expectations. TIL.
water flows 40G gallons per minute, ant
has Q pressure OF 104 pounds to gh.
!! aasEa
At Canton Friday afternoon W. NJ
Pattee met with q catastrophe whereby
he lost o valuable team and came neaI
losing his own life. He was dumping
manure near the river banks south Of
that city, when the horses suddenly
backed up and plunged down the steer
bank into the river, q distance of fifteeI
feet. Mr.. Pattee barely escaped By
Jumping from the load.
Fargo's two hotel projects are work
ing. Each depends upan the result o
efforts, to sscnre bonusus, and the ON.
that succeeds in raising the necessar,
finds first will. crowd the other out
as there rs not room for two first clasl
hotels in the city at present, Tht
south siders are reported to be ONLY
$1,000 TO $4,000 short. and they expeo
to have that raised within a week.